Mentski's Retro Hoedown Showdown. Episode 1.

If you're anything like me, for the whole of your life you will have been lying in bed asking the question, "Hey, I wonder what it would be like if K.C. and the Sunshine Band made a videogame?".

Well, rest easy - I finally found out the answer!

Whilst casually breaking the copyrights of as many arcade developers as possible through the wonderful world of MAME I found the game Fever SOS, also known by it's Japanese title, Dangun Feveron.

Made by Cave, a notorious developer of Shoot-Em-Ups (I will never, ever call the genre "shmups", as I believe if I do my brain will turn to jelly and fall out of my ears), Fever SOS/Dangun Feveron is BULLET HELL. IN DISCO FORM.



FEVER IS HERE INSIDE MY SOUL! INDEED.

However, the bestest thing of the whole experience is when I cheated my way to the end of the game.

Some arcade games by Japanese developers are notoriously badly translated, but this one takes the biscuit, cake, and then the whole desert trolley, just to be sure. It's like someone put it through Babelfish about 20 times, and through every language possible before getting to English.

See for yourself...


I agree. Yes.